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teleen_fiction) wrote2011-10-15 01:29 am
teleen_fiction) wrote2011-10-15 01:29 am
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Unsurprising Homophobia
I'm not sure why this resonated with me so much that I'm feeling the need to blog about it, but here it is. I was watching "The Soup" tonight (one day I might blog about the general fail on that show on a variety of issues - today is not that day) and they played a clip from "The Real World" part whatever.
In it, a very drunk bisexual man named Frank tears up the house because one of his housemates, Nate, hadn't spoken to him for three days. The reason for the cold shoulder? Frank had brought home a male "hookup" three days prior. As Frank tore up the bedroom in which Nate was spending time with a female "hookup" of his own, Nate's defense was, "I wasn't comfortable." He just kept repeating it, over and over.
"I wasn't comfortable!"
According to this article, Nate is apparently going to visit a gay bar to "prove he isn't homophobic." I'd say that ship has sailed.
Guess what? If you're not comfortable someone having a different sexual orientation to you and "flaunting" said sexuality by daring to bring home a partner (when you're bringing home partners yourself), you're a homophobe.
Period.
The thing is, it's utterly unsurprising that I would see this on a show like "The Real World," but somehow it still really bothered me.
In it, a very drunk bisexual man named Frank tears up the house because one of his housemates, Nate, hadn't spoken to him for three days. The reason for the cold shoulder? Frank had brought home a male "hookup" three days prior. As Frank tore up the bedroom in which Nate was spending time with a female "hookup" of his own, Nate's defense was, "I wasn't comfortable." He just kept repeating it, over and over.
"I wasn't comfortable!"
According to this article, Nate is apparently going to visit a gay bar to "prove he isn't homophobic." I'd say that ship has sailed.
Guess what? If you're not comfortable someone having a different sexual orientation to you and "flaunting" said sexuality by daring to bring home a partner (when you're bringing home partners yourself), you're a homophobe.
Period.
The thing is, it's utterly unsurprising that I would see this on a show like "The Real World," but somehow it still really bothered me.
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And I don't give a damn if he was uncomfortable or not - being uncomfortable is HIS damn problem - to not speak to his friend (not friend, tbh) for 3 days? Seriously no.
Oh yay, as if straight women going to gay bars to play tourist and ogle wasn't enough, now we get uncomfortable, homophobic straight men showing up to show how they're not homophobic? Sounds like a FUN night out.
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That's what bugged me the most - their behavior was EXACTLY the same. The only difference was the gender of their partners. If Nate had had a problem with "hookups" in general, it still wouldn't have been his business, but I would have been more sympathetic. This was just the sort of "covert" homophobia that allows people to say, "I'm fine with gay people... So long as they keep their gay somewhere I can't see it." :(
As for them being "friends"... Frank was genuinely hurt by Nate's behavior and yet Frank's the one who winds up apologizing for getting drunk and expressing it by tearing up the house. Okay, now that I type that, maybe his way of expressing it wasn't cool, but Nate's "defense"... *vomits*
Alarm bells went off in my head when the article spoke about Nate's trip to the gay bar. I have this awful image of him staring at the other patrons there like fish in a bowl, :(. Or worse yet, picking a fight with someone who hits on him.